Christos Bergeles

Biography

Dr. Christos Bergeles received the Ph.D. degree in Robotics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, and the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College, United Kingdom. He became a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at UCL in September 2015, where he was a core-founding member of the the Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences. He joined King’s College London in July 2018 as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor). Dr.Bergeles received the Fight for Sight Award in 2014, an ERC Starting Grant in 2016, and an NIHR Invention for Innovation Grant in 2017. He is leading the Robotics and Vision in Medicine Lab (RViM), whose mission is to develop image-guided micro-surgical robots that assist the delivery of regenerative therapies deep inside the human body.